People get fired from their jobs for many different reasons each year. If I was to tell you that a fighter could lose to Anderson Silva and Rich Franklin in consecutive fights, and get cut because of it, you would think I was lying. In what I feel is a surprising turn of events for this TUF 4 winner, he is cut from the UFC. Travis Lutter no longer can call the octagon his home.
In a recent blog post, Lutter confirmed the news.
Lutter’s record does not really tell his story. He is 1-2 since the UTF 4 finale and his only recent win came against Patrick Cote in that fight at the finale. Since then he has fought 2 of the best fighters at 185 in the world. In both of these fights he at one point seemed to have the upper hand.
After Travis fought Cote, he was offered a title shot against Anderson Silva. At the moment Silva is considered to be the best fighter pound for pound in the world by many fans! Lutter had control of this fight at one time. He had Silva mounted and was raining shots to the face and head of Silva, but was unable to finish. Shortly after this point Silva was able to reverse things and gain control. Lutter eventually tapped due to some nasty elbows by Silva. Lutter did lose this fight but looked very solid in the cage at one point.
In his next fight in the UFC he fought against one of the most popular fighters in the division in Rich Franklin. Franklin was rebounding off of another Silva loss, and seemed determined not to have his nose broke yet again. For one split second in this fight, Lutter had Franklin in trouble. Lutter tried an armbar attempt that surely put a scare to Franklin and his training camp. After the failed submission attempt, Lutter seemed to gas as Franklin dominated the rest of the fight to win.
Travis Lutter will indeed be picked up by another MMA organization. If he is to make a push for their title, he needs to improve the conditioning and standup portions of his game. Overall he has 9 wins and 5 losses, with 7 of the wins coming from submission. In his career he has been victorious over fighters such as Marvin Eastman and Patrick Cote. Lutter does not have the overall game to become a champion in the UFC, but he is a veteran that can finish a fight by submission from any position. We will hear more from him in the future for sure.
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April 28th, 2008 at 3:07 am
I think they should have kept him on and put him up against another BJJ fighter. I don’t like the guy very much. He came across as very arrogant and cocky during the pre-fight interviews and what he had to say about winning against Silva if they should fight a second time gave me the impression he was drifting off to la-la land. He also seems to lack respect for the game, again arrogance in my opinion, with his lack of decent cardio. Getting gassed in the second round, and so badly, is a joke at the level of game he’s fighting at. Get lost Lutter, get yourself back in shape and come back a little more humble.